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   From: bruce#fanboy.net@127.0.0.1   
      
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    "JBDragon"  wrote:   
      
   > Hey, I had a Atari 5200.  I like it for the most part.  The games looked   
   > good, far better then on the 2600.  I loved the trackball for it which I   
   > used for Centipede which looks really good.   The downside was the   
   > controllers.  Specifically the Side fire buttons which over a short time   
   > would start to fail to completely not work.  I'd have to take them apart and   
      
   I never got that far because they hurt my thumbs. So I rigged up a   
   pass-through connector, taped some aluminum foil to a plastic case, and   
   wrapped another piece around my big toe.   
      
   But hey, Atari had like 30+ patents in those things! Too bad they didn't   
   patent and use the idea of graphite-coated contacts, because those are   
   the only two sticks I've found post-period where the buttons still   
   worked without any tinkering.   
      
   But at least nobody ever accused it of being hard to program, since it   
   was basically a mutant Atari 400 in a heuger than Xbox case that was   
   mostly full of air. I would even keep one out to play if it weren't so   
   enormous.   
      
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